React Native Engineer

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Team: In-Life Domain - Enablers - Platform / Design System

Salary banding: £55,770 - £74,000

Experience: Experienced

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Software Engineering Manager

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Enabler, Experienced, Proficient

Top 3 qualities for this role: Frontend proficiency, Full stack experience, Native Mobile Development

In the words of the team, you should leave your current role for this one because….

"Our work is at the core of the user experience at OVO. We bring the very systems and best practices that allow our teams to build great UIs, engaging products, and make sure our customers can enjoy their interactions with our platforms. We're passionate about frontend and UX, but also the developer experience of the teams using our platforms!"

Where you’ll work:

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.

Team Working for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

Our Core UI team is part of In-Life domain, whose mission is to build amazing customer journeys to create a seamless and enjoyable user experience to power our Plan zero mission. This team enables other front end teams by creating UI components and platforms that are scalable, re-usable, bug-free and intuitive.

This role in a nutshell:

We're looking for an experienced React Native developer to join our dynamic team. The ideal person will have demonstrated experience in frontend web and/or native technologies.

You’ll work closely to support our delivery driven teams and product managers where needed. We have a very strong engineering culture that’s all about empowerment and ownership: all to solve one of the world's biggest challenges.

You're the right person for us if you: 

• Are genuinely passionate about developing products that will positively impact over a million people and also our environment
• Love working in teams and collaboratively building features that impact customers
• You're motivated by owning products, from inception to continuous improvement
• You understand building quality is essential and you value automation and continuous delivery
• Love building scalable, resilient solutions
• Seek learning opportunities to deepen your expertise or broaden your knowledge
• Built or contributed to a variety of systems, ideally in different technologies
• Have knowledge of the best engineering practices and continuous delivery
• Have experience building highly performant applications

Your key outcomes will be:

• Work closely with your Software Engineering Manager to help drive the roadmap for future work
• Align work with the other teams in the domain to support them
• Align work with any product requirements from the business

You’ll be a successful React Native Engineer at OVO if you…

• Are proficient in React Native / JavaScript / TypeScript
• Have native development experience in Android / iOS
• Have experience working on frontend with TypeScript, designing and implementing robust, scalable and secure components and user interfaces
• Have strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Love writing scalable, resilient, performant code
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) practices would be a bonus.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £55,770 and £74,000, depending on your specific skills and experience.

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home 
Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..